Recto:
beneath the image, bottom left, engraved: Drawn by J M W Turner R A
beneath the image, bottom right, engraved: Engraved by Edwd Goodall
within the image, bottom left, in graphite (Turner): faint [?] out [?] [...]
just to the left of the image, towards bottom, in graphite (Turner), three 'X's
above the plate mark, left of centre, a graphite drawing, apparently of a shield bearing arms
top right, in graphite: REF 151
running in two lines along the bottom and then up the right-hand edge, in graphite (Turner): X a few vertical Lines like XX ... by the first [?] tower [...] along front [...] boat at [...] tower [...] long the [...] of wood excepting O | If you can clear or blend all the Sky between the Chuches marked / / / / / into one tone ['one tone' underlined] so much the better but avoid [...; underlined] it will spoil all there are a few [...] lines ||between the [sketch of a two-masted boat] boat and flying Bridge you have [?; 'you have' struck through] in[...]d for lights to be Burnished, but [...] they are too [...]

Verso, the Ruskin School's stamp

Provenance

Presented by John Ruskin to the Ruskin Drawing School (University of Oxford), 1875; transferred from the Ruskin Drawing School to the Ashmolean Museum, c.1949.